Validation ft. Relena-Rochelle Lyrics

Now I got estrogen and melanin

But I won't be ya medicine

Make ya money off of me

I think you wanna check again

Started at the bottom

Now we climbing up the pyramid

Oh you didn't get the memo

Baby get this message then

Been at the bottom too long

When we weak we gotta be strong

We right they paintin' us wrong

When we tied

We gotta keep on

And on and on

A break is all that we want

But hate is all that they flaunt

No love from our Uncle Tom

And every-time we stand up to society

They tell us that its in our heads

They steady on gas lighting me

Only wanna tolerate me

When I show the white in me

Try they best to keep me covered

Tryna dim them light in me

But I still got a fight in me

You won't ever shut me up

No you will never silence me

I'mma get this message out

As long as there is life in me

I'mma tell my sistas too

No I won't let 'em die on me

(Haters)

But they wanna box us in

They don't wanna see us win

Too bad it ain't up to them

And we standing up to them

And we about to cut up

Pass it to my sista so that

She could tell you wassup

We got everything that we want

And we got everything that we need

We don't need your validation

Let me fix this crown on me

We don't really care what they want

No more living up to their needs

Don't need your validation

We queens

If it's up to you

Then we wouldn't move

You would keep us down

You would let us lose

You would run the world

You would take the girls

Wait wait wait

This already true

Take take take

You already do

We won't fake

Just to sit with you

Won't celebrate

At ya festivals

We was still slaves

When you made em new

Fourth of July

Bombs bursting high

We was in the fields

Wishin' we would die

Star spangled banner waved in the air

While my great greats gaspin' for air

They was getting raped under master's care

We was hangin' drapes when they pulled the chairs

But y'all don't care

They tell us to forgive

And to get over it

But racism is still alive

Its deadly just like covid is

Its taken many of our lives

Its crazy y'all don't notice it

Or maybe you don't wanna see

But baby we gone show you this

No more cappin' off our skin

No more beatin' on our kids

We ain't here to be ya friends

Undoing all that's colonized

Its hard to pray

When Jesus still is white

When I close my eyes

We got everything that we want

And we got everything that we need

We don't need your validation

Let me fix this crown

We don't really care what they want

No more living up to their needs

We don't need your validation

We queens

We don't need

(Wuh)

We don't need ya

(Wuh)

We dont need ya vali

Vali

We don't need ya valida

Vali

We don't need

(Wuh)

We don't need ya

(Wuh)

We dont need ya vali

Vali

We don't need ya valida

Vali